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Will Cain Country

Bjorn Lomborg: How to Unleash Efficiency to Solve the World's Problems

Will Cain Country

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4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Can some of the most complicated and controversial political issues be solved through simple cost-benefit analysis? Author, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Bjorn Lomborg and Will dissect this very question. Will and Bjorn discuss his new book, Best Things First: The 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises, deep diving into some of the world's most complicated and divisive issues from climate change to poverty. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing WillCainPodcast@fox.com Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:12.0

Climate, nutrition, childhood, immunization, can we tackle the most controversial issues

0:16.8

while making them so rationed by doing the best things first?

0:22.6

It's the Wilkain podcast on Fox News, podcast, what's up, and welcome to Wednesday.

0:28.0

As always, I hope you will download, rate, and review this podcast wherever you get

0:30.9

your audio entertainment, Apple Spotify, or at Fox News podcast.

0:34.9

You can watch the Wilkain podcast on YouTube, and go follow me on Twitter for all the latest

0:39.6

on the Wilkain podcast at Wilkain.

0:43.3

Your Longborg is a climate scientist who has been one of the most open-minded in my estimation

0:50.0

authentic solution seekers in issues ranging from climate to nutrition.

0:57.3

He's written a new book addressing the problems plaguing the world, and acutely the world's

1:03.7

poorest, and asking the question, why don't we try to do the best things first?

1:09.7

In fact, now he's written a book on it, best things first, where he offers up 12 solutions

1:16.0

to some of the biggest problems in the world.

1:18.5

As I mentioned, I have a tendency, as you know, to focus, talk, and address the most controversial

1:26.9

elephants in the room.

1:28.8

And I do with Bjorn, but he doesn't just talk about climate, immunization.

1:34.6

He also talks about things that should be in some way much more obvious and much less

1:39.6

controversial to address, like malaria and tuberculosis, and he does so through a very

1:45.7

rational means by simply asking, what's the cost benefit on the solution to any of these

1:52.8

problems?

1:53.8

What are you going to enjoy this conversation where we talk?

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